Clyde Noel BRACKEN

BRACKEN, Clyde Noel

Service Number: NX73099
Enlisted: Not yet discovered
Last Rank: Private
Last Unit: 2nd/18th Infantry Battalion
Born: 28 July 1918, place not yet discovered
Home Town: Coonabarabran, Warrumbungle Shire, New South Wales
Schooling: Not yet discovered
Occupation: Not yet discovered
Died: Prisoner of War, 13 April 1945, aged 26 years, place of death not yet discovered
Cemetery: No known grave - "Known Unto God"
Labuan Memorial Panel10.
Memorials: Ballarat Australian Ex-Prisoners of War Memorial
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World War 2 Service

Date unknown: Involvement Private, NX73099 , 2nd/18th Infantry Battalion

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Biography contributed by Kerry Shooks

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NSW. Paybook photograph, taken on enlistment, of NX73099 Private Clyde Noel Bracken, 2/18th Battalion, Australian Infantry. He was one of over 2000 Allied prisoners of war (POW) held in the Sandakan POW camp in north Borneo, having been transferred there from Singapore as a part of E Force. The 500 Australian and 500 British POW's who made up E Force, left Changi on 28 March 1943, on board the S.S. DeKlerk arriving at Berhala Island (adjacent to Sandakan Harbour) on 15 April 1943. The POW's were held there until 5 June, when they were taken by barge to Sandakan. The next day they were transferred to the 8 Mile Camp, which was about half a mile from the B Force compound. Private Bracken, aged 23, died as a prisoner of the Japanese on 13 April 1945. He was the son of Herbert Henry and Ethel Ann Bracken, of Coonabarabran, NSW. He is commemorated on the Labuan Memorial Panel 10. (Photograph copied from AWM232, items 4 and 5. Personal information from the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Database.)
 

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Biography contributed by Kerry Shooks

Private Clyde Noel Bracken is found and Maintained by: K A Shooks
Originally Created by: International Wargraves Photography Project

Find A Grave No. 20344572 along with his family

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